We shall explore 10 (or so) discoveries, inventions, and care innovations over the past 80 years that changed medicine and clinical care from often wrong observations, few therapeutic options, and some radically invasive treatments to rapid discovery and innovation which has changed how we think about prevention, acute illness, and chronic diseases.

Our course will explore sublime discoveries and inventions which have yielded multiple Nobel prizes. We shall also review how simple observation radically changed care. In one example, cancer has mostly become a chronic disease. Over five weeks we shall explore the evolution of the science of medicine from the sublime to the mundane, which has changed expectations about what modern medicine can do.

This course will combine lecture with class discussions. The book (listed below) is entirely optional; several copies will be available for participants to borrow.